The nudibranch family two blocks away answers a mighty summons from the past, desire for love like a roof overhead, light like light from stars long dead, like the afterlife of your feelings now you know.

Cuthona behrensi, a beautiful white specimen with white-tipped rhinophores named for nudibranch specialist Dave Behrens, who supported the research effort, was found by Alicia Hermosillo under a rock at 13m depth at Los Frailes, Golfo de Chiriqui, Panama.

Visitors on their own must stick to the boardwalk, though National Parks does conduct guided tours onto the beach – one of the few places left in Singapore where you can hunt through rock pools to find crabs, starfish, sea squirts, nudibranch and even octopuses.

I would just like to relate that on yesterday's (Nov 13th 2009) advanced proficiency test administered by the Cervantes Institute, one of the 'comprehension texts' was totally given over to the nudibranch. O, mejor dicho, el nudibranquio.

Who said hanging out on Wordie wasn't edumacational in a practical sense?